In front of the Wen Long Academy gate Yang Bo and Gong Ming stared with concern at An Jian who was still smiling with her eyes close in a delirious state in between them.
An Hao looking at the two confused boys like they were her subordinates "I can take it from here, she will be back normal after a rest and a meal" before pulling out two pork buns and handing them each one which she had bought on there way back. "You two do the same"
An Hao pulled An Jian's arm over her shoulder and walked her pass the gates. Yang Bo and Gong Ming stood there like lost puppies watching until An Hao and An Jian were out of sight. They both were wondering if they should come visit the next day, checking on An Jian would be a good excuse to come see her again. They then turned to each other and nodded and went there separate ways unsure if they were rivals or brothers who understood one another.
An Hao helped An Jian back to her nursing room and laid An Jian on the bed, however before she could tuck An Jian in properly, An Jian already flailed her arms out like a starfish deep in sleep. An Hao laughed at the sight and sat at the top corner of the bed staring down at An Jian's delicate care free face.
An Hao thought how the boys probably considered An Jian some super woman, however she would always see An Jian as her helpless baby sister, the one who once followed her up a mountain without her knowing only to faint half way, due to her low constitution. It would only be when An Hao came back down did she find An Jian laying in the middle of the trail like a dead pigeon. It was a traumatic experience that accelerated her research for finding a cure which eventually lead to her transferring her internal energy permanently to An Jian.
An Hao leaned back against the bed frame and took a nap beside An Jian. A little before midnight An Jian woke up which also woke up An Hao.
An Jian looked around the room wondering why she was here, An Hao then handed her a pork bun, "Here eat this, there's more by the table". An Jian got up and sat at the table and started stuffing her face then asked "How did I get here?"
An Hao laughed "You don't remember? Yang Bo and Gong Ming carried you all the way back here"
An Jian suddenly froze in mid chew horrified trying to remember.
An Hao laughed again "You really don't remember any of it?"
An Jian thought for a second "The last thing I remember was me showing Master Gong the iron shield technique and then...."
An Jian's face had quite a concerned expression "Did I do something foolish?"
An Hao with a smirk "Not really, you did have a dumb smile on your face all the way back but I wouldn't call it foolish … Oh and you might have mumble incoherently from time to time" An Hao laughed again
An Jian continued eating slowly finishing the 4 Pork Buns An Hao had bought her then got up nodded to An Hao and left without saying anything as if deep in thought with an embarrassed expression.
An Hao sat there smiling half laughing.
A little more time passed and An Hao dawned her black sneaking outfit she had been customizing through out the weeks. She leapt onto the roof and kept to the roofs all the way to the Imperial Palace using the grand tree to overcome the palace walls.
The grounds near the Imperial Library had few guards by design, it turned out it was a place to conduct secret affairs and meet mistresses for late night lusty encounters.
The Crown Prince who earlier in the day had met An Hao found his libido seeming to take over him through out the day and had secretly invited one of the girls who waited for him into an area of the library setup for him. He didn't like the concubines chosen by the Empress and prefer his own standard for beauty in women. He was a stallion tonight and barely soften through each intermission, it seemed the pressure points from the mysterious girl were still in effect.
The Crown Prince suddenly heard a creek in the window and paused. The window slid opened and came through someone wearing all black "Who's there!" the prince tried to reach for his clothes, but before he could make any progress, the figure in black was already on the bed right in front of him. He tried to defend himself but this person out maneuver him with a high level of kung fu hitting pressure points leaving him frozen. Before the undressed girl beside him could scream, she was also frozen by pressure points.
An Hao had come through the second story window not expecting anyone would be there, surprised to see the Crown Prince being intimate. She quickly ran forward to silence them slightly bathing in the aura of their lust, uncontrollably grinning having her own lust triggered. She then thought it seemed her circulation pressure points worked too well as the Crown Prince was frozen hard and ready for intimate conquest. She got up and grabbed The Door manual and stuffed into her pocket. She then like a playful cat stepped back onto the make shift bed. The Prince's frozen eyes turned to terror expecting to be assassinated. An Hao then placed her hands on his chest and pressed him down into the mattress almost like she was about to mount him before two more figures with rags tied around their faces came through the window behind her.
Li Zhao and Yang Bei were shocked, did they come into the middle of a love triangle between An Hao and the Crown Prince?
An Hao immediately knew it was Li Zhao, but she wasn't sure who the other person was until a little examining. She put her finger to her mouth as to tell them not to make a noise.
Yang Bei stood frozen and was slightly distracted by the undress mistresses and An Hao's compromising position over the Prince, unable to look away he was still quite innocent.
Li Zhao walked forward and placed his hand on An Hao's back as to pull her away from the bed. An Hao still in a lustful trance looked to Li Zhao with a smile under her mask. She moved like a feline and got up accentuating her feminine proportions seductively but had enough mind to understand they needed to escape.
Yang Bei watched uncomfortably not sure what to make of the erotic scene.
An Hao finally got up and tapped him on the chest and pointed out the window.
Yang Bei broke out of his dazed and nodded. Li Zhao motioned for them to leave, Yang Bei left first then An Hao and Li Zhao.
The Crown Prince watched frozen as the 3 masked intruders left through the window, with the one female intruder seeming to give him lustful glances. Was she also an admire of his? Why did he feel so strangely allured by her. He would come out of his stasis an hour later and have one more round with the mistress still thinking about the seductive intruder.
An Hao was still feeling lustful and euphoric running through the roofs with Li Zhao and Yang Bei. The wind blew through their hair like they were a pack of crows. Li Zhao was able to keep up but Yang Bei just barely. Li Zhao thought to himself was An Hao hiding her martial arts all this time? He then felt surge of jealousy thinking about why she was in bed with the Crown Prince and his mistress. Exactly what was she doing?
An Hao lead them to a dark corner alley near Wen Long Academy. She then placed her hands on both their chest and asked in a playful tone, "Why are the two of you here". Yang Bei swallowed nervously not use to a feminine touch. Li Zhao then grabbed her wrist while her hand was on his chest and said firmly "Why were you with the Prince?" An Hao then spun behind him hugging his waist "Why are you jealous?"
Yang Bei felt uncomfortable thinking maybe he should leave, but then An Hao broke away form Li Zhao and pressed him against the brick wall "Why are you here tonight?" giving a flirtatious side eye.
Yang Bei finally mustered "I thought you were in danger when Li Zhao said he was searching for you"
An Hao smiled "How heroic"
Li Zhao suddenly pulled An Hao off Yang Bei "What's gotten into you?"
An Hao smiling flirtatiously "Am I not my self?... Who's the real An Hao?... Why can't I conduct myself the way I feel. " An Hao pulled Li Zhao closer to herself "I am in heat, lets go to my room.." as she bit her lips.
Li Zhao held her back "Did the Crown Prince poison you or put you under a spell?"
An Hao pushed off Li Zhao "Maybe I should take Yang Bei instead" An Hao pouted.
Yang Bei stood concerned, unsure what to make of An Hao, was this her normal personality with a slight nagging temptation of the offer in the back of his head?
An Hao then started walking toward Yang Bei but Li Zhao grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the Wen Long Gates dragging An Hao away leaving Yang Bei behind alone in the dark.
Early morning still under moonlight in An Hao's room after a long intimate session Li Zhao woke up to find An Hao sitting under candle light reading a manual.
Li Zhao laid back down and looked up to the ceiling "I was too selfish to see it before, but when I was sick our intimacy brought me back to life, what kind of medicinal practice was this?"
Li Zhao waited for an answer but An Hao was quiet. He then sat back up to look at An Hao "What's wrong?"
An Hao place the manual on the table. "Li Zhao, was I not myself tonight?"
Li Zhao got out of the bed and sat behind An Hao on a stool and slowly started kissing her neck "You might have been a little lusty but nothing more than me" as he started to kiss her ear.
An Hao closed her eyes in pleasure but then caught herself standing up and breaking away from Li Zhao's grasp. "I don't want to see you again... You are fully recovered, then we are done now"
Li Zhao got up holding An Hao's shoulder "What are you saying?" he tried to hug her one last time but An Hao pushed him away.
An Hao said flatly "Stop acting like we are a couple, we were just conveniently satisfying each other, I did it only to help you recover, so now that we don't have any obligation to each other, don't come and see me again."
Li Zhao eyes actually started to tear up. "I love you.. you are all I care about in this world"
An Hao pressed Li Zhao by the shoulder leading him to the door, telling him to leave. "Stop being so dramatic, I don't love you and you don't love me, we only exchanged meaningless intimacy, now go find a decent girl for yourself"
Li Zhao in pain "You are the most decent"
An Hao with an angry look "You don't know me.." and pressed him through the door before closing it on his face.
An Hao from behind the door "Just the sight of you makes me ill, leave !"
Li Zhao left heart broken knowing how stubborn An Hao was, decided he would come back tomorrow.
An Hao sat back down in front the The Door manual which chronicled how Master Tang murdered his wife, his son then his brother and his brother's family in the pursuit of finding the truth of the door.
From how it was chronicled, it seemed consistent feeding was better than abstinence which would lead to a psychotic break. She would need to go hunt a potential target for draining tomorrow night while she still had her mind. It would also be best for her to distance herself from those she cared about, her future seemed to have only one lonely path, she thought.